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abdominal pain in children: the most common causes
Sometimes in children and adolescents, the abdomen may suddenly become ill. Acute pain occurs suddenly, quite severe, disrupts the overall well-being and activity of the child.
At the first signs of an acute abdomen, you need to urgently consult a doctor.
Doctor Anna Levadnaya noted: life-threatening conditions and those that do not threaten can lead to an acute abdomen.
Life-threatening conditions can lead to internal bleeding, obstruction and / or perforation of the wall of the digestive tube. They often need surgery.
These include:
1) Appendicitis: pain in the lower right abdomen, may migrate from the navel, in young children the symptoms may be vague
2) Invagination, inversion of intestinal loops. Most often occurs between the ages of 2 months and 2 years, there may be an admixture of blood in the feces.
3) Ingestion of foreign bodies. The most dangerous are magnets, batteries, large objects.
4) Injury to the abdomen.
5) Complications of peptic ulcer (perforation and / or bleeding). The child may experience vomiting with blood or the color of coffee grounds, black tar-like feces.
6) Hernia (inguinal, umbilical). A protrusion in the navel or inguinal folds may be observed.
7) Ectopic pregnancy (in adolescent girls): delayed menstruation, acyclic uterine bleeding.
8) Testicular twist (in boys): pain in the groin, in the scrotum.
Why does stomach ache in children and adolescents
Conditions that do not threaten life and lead to acute abdominal pain
1. Constipation: up to 50% of children with acute abdominal pain
2. Intestinal infections: accompanied by fever, diarrhea and / or vomiting
3. Functional childhood colic.
4. Errors in nutrition: an episode of overeating, poor-quality food, and the like.
5. Associations with disorders in the gastrointestinal tract, but may be associated with other organs:
- Urinary tract infections. Abdominal pain may be accompanied by fever, impaired urination (in children older than 5 years)
- Lower lobar pneumonia. Pain in this case is accompanied by fever, shortness of breath, cough.
- SARS: pain accompanied by catarrhal symptoms
The doctor advises not to self-medicate.
Categorically it is impossible to give the child an anesthetic, in particular, antispasmodics, which then can complicate the diagnosis.
The sooner the doctor makes the correct diagnosis, the more favorable the prognosis.
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